China

Is China harvesting organs from ethnic minorities?

Michael Cook | 10 December 2011

A frightening article in the Weekly Standard sheds some light on the situation. Investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann interviewed several Uighur refugees now living in the West who had witnessed the process of organ transplantation. They tell stories of ghastly abuses of political prisoners.

Surrogacy thrives in China, despite illegality

Jared Yee | 27 October 2011

While surrogacy is illegal in China, it is booming under lax oversight.

Pop culture, wealthy Chinese drive booming medical tourism in Asia

Jared Yee | 15 October 2011

It’s one of the fastest-growing industries in Asia.

Interview: Art Caplan on boycotting Chinese organ transplants

Michael Cook | 11 October 2011

In response to the “barbarous practice of obtaining organs from executed prisoners” in China, the prominent US bioethicist Arthur Caplan, together with other experts, proposed an international boycott of organ transplants in China in a recent issue of The Lancet. Chinese doctors and scientists would be excluded from conferences, journals, and collaborative research. BioEdge asked Professor Caplan to elaborate on the situation in China.

Boycott China, say bioethicists

Michael Cook | 01 October 2011

Despite assurances that the practice is winding down, China persists in using organs from executed prisoners. In an editorial in The Lancet, several prominent bioethicists have called upon doctors and scientists to boycott everything related to organ transplants.

Chinese surrogates relocate to US

Jared Yee | 24 August 2011

A Californian lawyer is facing jail for brokering 12 illegal surrogacies. But this is small change for Lu Jinfeng, a Chinese man who claims that he has brokered about 3,000 surrogate babies since 2004 -- even though the practice is illegal in China.

Chinese abortion story: urban myth or gruesome scandal?

Michael Cook | 20 August 2011

China’s Health Ministry is taking the gruesome story of aborted babies ground into powder and used as aphrodisiacs seriously enough to launch an official investigation. SBS, one of the three major national television networks in South Korea, broadcast a documentary earlier this month about capsules from China containing dead baby flesh.

China to crack down on illegal transplants

Jared Yee | 13 August 2011

China’s Ministry of Health will crack down on illegal human organ harvesting and transplants, a statement on the ministry’s website said last week.

China pledges crackdown on sex-selective abortions

Jared Yee | 12 August 2011

China has vowed to strengthen measures to prevent sex-selective abortions and close a widening gender gap in a country that already has tens of millions more boys than girls.

“Great progress” in organ regulation, claims Chinese government

Jared Yee | 29 July 2011

Researchers have praised the Chinese government’s “great progress” in regulating its organ transplant operations in the Journal of the American Medical Association this week.

Chinese teenager sells kidney to buy iPad 2

Michael Cook | 04 June 2011

It sounds like an commercial made by The Onion to sell Apple's iPad 2: “"I wanted to buy an iPad 2, but I didn't have the money. When I surfed the internet I found an advert posted online by agent saying they were able to pay RMB20,000 to buy my kidney."

China considers financial incentives to promote organ donation

Jared Yee | 29 April 2011

China considers scrapping 1-child policy

Michael Cook | 26 March 2011

The Chinese government may consider lifting restrictions on its notorious one-child policy. Wang Yuqing, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, told the government newspaper People’s Daily that he would like to see a gradual opening of the one-child policy which has been in force since 1979.

Rising demand for IVF in China causes spread of unlicensed clinics

Jared Yee | 03 November 2010

Commercialisation of IVF causes boom in illegal clinics

Plagiarism widespread in Chinese science

Michael Cook | 11 September 2010

Acknowledged by Chinese academic

Chinese psychiatric hospitals used to incarcerate political opponents

Michael Cook | 28 June 2010

Situation gets worse with financial pressures on hospitals

Organ traffickers on trial in China

Jared Yee | 22 May 2010

Man brokered organs from living donors

Chinese harvesting organs from other religious groups, says Falun Gong

Michael Cook | 28 April 2010

Chinese harvesting organs from Muslims, Buddhists and Christians, as well

Compulsory sterilisation drive in China

Jared Yee | 24 April 2010

Relatives coerced as well